Veronica Herber. Photo: Monica Kwon, The Big Idea.
It’s refreshing – even radical – to encounter someone like Veronica Herber.
Such a decision, of course, didn’t come lightly. Her first steps towards art school felt less like a triumphant march and more like a guilty tiptoe – a feeling she describes as “bunking real life”, as if rebelling against the ‘sensible’ path she’d followed for so long.
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